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SEQUEL 


TO THE 


“LONE STAR” TRACT. 


BY 


REV. W. S. MCKENZIE, 


Distr. SECRETARY OF A. B. M. UNton. 


BOSTON : 
AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSIONARY UNION. 


1879. 


G. J. Srites, PRiInTER, 101 Mi_kK SrreEtT, Boston. 


THE TELOOGOO MISSION. 


Tur “Lone Star” Tracr anp irs Sequren.— The “Lone 
Star” tract, published first in 1874, gives a sketch of the 
Teloogoo mission from its origin in 1836 up to near the middle 
of the year 1873. That sketch has had a very wide circulation. 
Its welcome among American Baptists, it is not too much to 
say, has been such as no other missionary tract has ever re- 
ceived. The history of this mission has been a most eventful 
one. Its reverses and successes have been extraordinary and 
surprising, exciting the profoundest interest among those who 
have watched its fortunes. The recent and marvellous advance 
in the evangelization of the Teloogoos has summoned anew the 
attention of christians everywhere to that mission field. A brief 
narrative of the latest developments in the mission has been 
published and extensively circulated by the Missionary Union. 
But no notice was taken of the leading events that had tran- 
spired between the closing date of the first tract and the date 
of the great awakening described in the second. The first 
edition of the latter, ten thousand copies, was nearly exhausted 
in a few days after it came from the press; and in issuing this 
new edition of the Sequet, an attempt is made to eae, the 
missing links in the published history of the Teloogoo mission. 


THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR 1873.—Reyv. Mr. Clough, having 
regained his health, returned in the autumn of 1878 to resume 
his labors in Ongole, where he arrived on the last day of 
January, 1874. He had now associated with him Rev. Mr. 
Campbell and wife. Rev. Mr. McLaurin, who had been Mr. 
Clough’s fellow-laborer, and had the sole charge of the work 
at Ongole during the absence of Mr. Clough in America, 


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dissolved his connection with the Missionary Union, and pro- 
ceeded at once to Coconada, to open a mission among the 
Teloogoos of that country, under the auspices of the Canadian 
Baptists. In his report to the Union, up to the close of 1873, 
he says: “The year began with a burst of blessing in the North, 
which nearly surprised us, used as we are to great things from 
the Lord. During the first tour, in less than a month, two hun- 
dred and seventy-seven persons were baptized. From that time 
the work progressed steadily....I have no doubt that we shall 
see some mighty religious revolution in India before we die. 
Thousands of people expect it. Brahmins, Mohammedans, and 
people of all castes, have repeatedly told me and the preachers, 
‘Your religion is the only true religion.” ‘We know it must 
prevail. ‘We all must come, too, some day.’ J have known 
high native officials use it as an argument with village officials, 
why they should not molest the christians, saying, ‘We, too, 
must become christians soon.’ I believe we can breathe the at- 
mosphere of the change.” At this station, Mr. McLaurin had 
baptized, during the year 1878, over seven hundred converts, 
and the total membership of the church was two thousand seven 
hundred and sixty-one. 

Mr. Downie and his wife reached Nellore in December, 1873, 
and relieved Dr. Jewett, who immediately joined the other 
members of the Teloogoo Bible Revision Committee at Rajah- 
mundy. On quitting Nellore, Dr. Jewett wrote to the Mission 
Rooms as follows: “The broad and needy fields I was leaving 
never looked more attractive. I did not leave them without 
an inward struggle; but in that struggle there was no doubt as 
to the path of duty. The Teloogoo people must have the 
Bible in as perfect a translation as can be made at the present 
day.” In the spring of 1874, Dr. Jewett, with shattered 
health, was obliged to seek respite in this country from the 
wearying service in which he had so long and so heroically 
toiled. The Lord had signally honored the faithful and per- 
sistent labors of this veteran missionary, while by his brethren 
in America he was greatly revered for his indomitable courage 


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manifested in clinging to the once seemingly hopeless and 
widely discredited “Lone Star” mission. 

At Ramapatam, Rev. Mr. Timpany, with waning health, was 
carrying the heavy burden of mission work, teaching in the 
seminary, travelling, preaching, baptizing, organizing work, and 
overseeing the native laborers. He says in his annual report, 
“The expectations to which I gave expression a year ago 
respecting the eastern portion of this field have been quite 
realized. A large number have been baptized, and quite a 
number of villages have come under our influence. In looking 
over the field, it seems white to the harvest. In every village 
where the gospel is persistently preached, souls come to the 
Saviour.” The whole number baptized by Mr. Timpany dur- 
ing the year was two hundred and forty-seven; and the mem- 
bership was six hundred and seventy-five. Rev. Mr. Williams, 
who went out with Mr. Clough on his return to India, took 
charge of the Theological Seminary at Ramapatam, assisted by 
Miss Peabody. At Alloor, Rev. Mr. Bullard was laboring un- 
der great disadvantages, but not without success. 


Tur YEaR 1874.— The Secretary of the Missionary Union, 
in the annual report of the foreign department, presented at 
the anniversary in the spring of 1875, remarks: “'The progress 
of the wonderful work among the Teloogoos has not been as 
marked and visible during the year 1874 as in some of the pre- 
ceding years; but it has still been gratifying beyond the ordi- 
nary fruits of missionary labor.” The mission had been again 
reénforced during the year by the arrival of Rev. Mr. Drake 
and Miss M. A. Wood. Although the missionaries encoun- 
tered many discouragements in every part of the Teloogoo field, 
they cherished bright anticipations of success in due time. Mr. 
Downie writes: “This Nellore field is a grand one, and is white 
and ready for the reapers. For nearly thirty years the seed has 
been sown broadcast. Such faithful work as this field has ‘re- 
ceived must sooner or later yield an abundant harvest.” Mr. 
Clough and Mr. Campbell were pushing out into the regions be- 
yond. They went as far as Hyderabad, a large city two hun- 


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dred and ten miles northwest from Ongole, and connected by 
railroad with Bombay and Madras, three hundred and ninety- 
seven miles from the former, and four hundred and ninety-two 
from the latter. The locality is thus described by Mr. Clough: 
“ Hyderabad, Secunderabad, and Golconda bear the same rela- 
tion to each other as New York City, Brooklyn, and Jersey 
City do, and contain over two hundred thousand people. It is 
at present by far the largest and most important city in the 
Teloogoo country. The city itself is now largely Mohamme- 
dan in religion; but the country is Teloogoo, and of the 
Brahminical faith, as here.” Mr. Clough, though he has no 
very cheering report of success to give for 1874, sees in the 
near future a victory for Christ and his gospel among the 
Teloogoos. He writes: “I fully believe that the prospect ahead 
was never so bright and encouraging. It will be a glorious 
thing, for which we should be thankful, if we can hold our own 
while the thirty-eight students at Ramapatam, and the one 
hundred and forty at Ongole, are preparing for the harvest.” 
And Mr.Timpany has the same bright outlook, as indicated in 
these words: “I hardly dare express what I feel sometimes; 
and yet why should we not look for it?—the time when they 
shall move like a flood, sweeping all before them. One thing 
is certain: the time is coming, must come, when they all will 
leave their idols, and at least all be nominal Christians, and 
many more than that,— true disciples of the Lord Jesus.” Mr. 
Bullard, writing from Alloor, remarks: “The foundations have 
been laid, and the work, we believe, will go on. The ground 
to be covered is large, and we feel that it is not our duty to 
limit ourselves to a small part only. Our plan is to cover the 
whole; and, although it may take time before the desired re- 
sults will appear, in the end we believe that the people will 
become the Lord’s people, and the land a christian land.” And 
so the letters of all the laborers abound with the boldest pre- 
dictions regarding a great success in the Teloogoo mission. at 
no distant day. 


Tue YeEAR 1875.—The mission is again reénforced by the 
arrival of Rev. Mr. Loughridge and wife; also Rev. Mr. New- 


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hall. The Nellore station was visited by a disastrous flood, 
and the cholera raged fearfully for two months, sweeping away 
hundreds of the natives. Mr. Clough, in company with Mr. 
Drake, spent three months preaching in the jungle villages, 
going as far as Kurnool, one hundred and eighty miles dis- 
tant from Ongole. At a town never before visited by a 
missionary, one hundred and forty miles from Ongole, Mr. 
Clough baptized twenty-six converts, who were organized into 
a branch church. Deacons were chosen, and a pastor settled. 
Mr. Clough was assured by the christians of this town that if 
he would remain a week longer, one hundred converts more, 
from various villages, would be ready to offer themselves for 
baptism. The baptisms for the year, at the Ongole station, 
were one hundred and eighty-one, and the membership of the 
church was two thousand eight hundred and twenty-five. The 
baptisms at Ramapatam were forty-eight, and the church 
had a membership ef seven hundred and sixty-four. At Nel- 
lore, the baptisms were sixteen, and the church numbered one 
bundred and eighty-eight. A new and most important mis- 
sion centre was established in the city of Secunderabad, and 
occupied by Mr. Campbell and his’ wife, with two native 
preachers, one teacher, and one colporteur, from Ongole. A 
church was organized in Secunderabad, starting with fourteen 
members, and the little company was being increased. The 
missionary at Secunderabad, with his native helpers, was 
entering villages and publishing the glad tidings where no 
christian missionary had ever been. For 1875, the Teloogoo 
mission reported fifty-three native preachers, five churches, two 
hundred and forty-six baptisms, three thousand eight hundred 
and thirty-seven members. 


Tue YEAR 1876.—Rev. Mr. Timpany returned to America, 
and in October of this year severed his connection with the 
Union, with a view to joining the Canadian mission in Coconada. 
Miss Mary M. Day, the daughter of Rev. Samuel 8. Day, the 
founder of the Teloogoo mission, was appointed to service 
among the Teloogoos. On the field, the laborers were strug- 


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gling with formidable obstacles, but still achieving some grati- 
fying successes. The stations of Nellore and Alloor were 
united. For lack of means, the missionaries were obliged to 
leave inviting fields untilled and unvisited. ‘The cholera scourge 
was prevalent. At the close of this year, the famine began, 
which through the year 1877 spread such melancholy desola- 
tions throughout the whole of the Madras Presidency. Mr. 
Clough was making strenuous efforts to prepare for this calam- 
ity. He writes: “God only can see the end; but we intend to 
fight on and pray on as long as there is anything left of us, and 
the result will honor Jesus: I fully believe that when the fam- 
ine is over, if not before, there will be such a turning to Jesus, 
such a casting-away of idols and Brahminism, as India has 
never before seen.” Mr. Clough had baptized in this year six 
hundred and fifty-six, and the membership of the church was 
three thousand four hundred and seven. Mr. Loughridge was 
busily employed in getting up the projected institution for 
an advanced course of education. The year was a very trying 
one at Ramapatam, but. Mr. Newhall struggled heroically to 
meet the perplexing emergencies of his position. Mrs. Williams, 
the wife of Mr. Williams, in charge of the Theological School, 
suddenly died “in the full flush of life and hope.” Mr. 
and Mrs. Campbell were getting their mission work well 
organized at Secunderabad. Mr. Drake began work at Kur- 
nool in August of this year. After reaching the field, he ex- 
pressed the beliei that God had a great blessing in store for 
the people of Kurnool. He writes: “We should not enter- 
tain a doubt in regard to the success of the work. I have not 
come here to experiment. I feel that the Lord has brought 
me here to do a work for him, and I want to be found in my 
place. The new station gives promise of much good.” Be- 
fore the close of the year, he baptized twenty-two converts. 
Many others professed faith in Christ, but Mr. Drake kept 
them waiting until he could test the genuineness of their pro- 
fessions. The whole number of baptisms among the Teloo- 
goos in 1876 was seven hundred and twenty-four; and the 


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total membership of the churches at the close of the year 
was four thousand three hundred and ninety-four. 


THe. YEAR 1877.— The annual report of work in the Teloo- 
goo field, presented at the anniversary meetings in 1878, opens 
with the following record: “The changes in the mission are 
comprised in the lamented death of Mrs. Newhall, the departure 
of Mr. Bullard on account of poor health, the return of Dr. and 
Mrs. Jewett, and the accession of Miss Day to the ranks of the 
laborers. The effects of the famine are clearly traced in the 
large death-record and the comparatively small number of 
baptisms.” Mr. Downie writes: “The new year dawned upon 
us amid sickness and death. Cholera was still raging. The 
famine is, of course, the great event of the year.” Mr. 
Clough’s annual report for this year gives a copious descrip- 
tion of the state of the people and of the mission during the 
terrible famine year. Only afew sentences of that report can be 
quoted here. He says: “From February Ist until about August 
1st, all my time and energies were employed on the Bucking- 
ham Canal. I believe it was God’s plan of saving hundreds, 
if not thousands, of Christians and their relatives and friends 
from hunger, disease, and death. During the year under re- 
view, although continually amid horrible, sickening scenes, we 
feel that as missionaries, and as a mission, we have enjoyed the 
special smile of Heaven upon us continually. It is true that 
only one hundred and ten have been baptized; but it should be 
remembered that since about the 15th of March we have 
not baptized any, though hundreds, yes, thousands, have 
clamored for the ordinance; but we have not had the time or 
strength, even if it had been desirable,to conduct the neces- 
sary examination of the candidates. At our bi-monthly meet- 
ing the Sunday before Christmas, over fifteen hundred from 
near and afar requested baptism. The greater part of this 
multitude are, no doubt, believers in Jesus as the only Saviour. 
We expect glorious things in due time.” 

In closing his report, Mr. Clough says: “I look back over 
the year 1877 with amazement, and, I trust, devout thankful- 


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ness. Sometimes the outlook was dark indeed, and we could ~ 
not see ahead a streak of light even; but step by step, day by 
day, we have been led. I will mention a few among many of 
the Lord’s mercies to us: (1) The first month of the year, large 
donations from friends in India, together with a Government 
loan, enabled me to keep the christians from starving to death. 
(2) The canal contract provided all who were willing to work, 
and the old, lame, sick, and children, if they would only come to 
my camp, abundant support from February till the middle of 
August. (3) When no more work was to be had, the little mes- 
sage, ‘Thousands christians starving. Solicit aid, ‘wired’ to 
Burmah, Assam, Calcutta, London, and Boston, touched warm 
_ hearts all prepared to respond; and within afew hours words of 
cheer came back over the lines, telling us that money was even 
then on its way for the suffering. Missionary brethren, every 
one, in Burmah, Assam, and Siam, and friends and native 
churches, gave most liberally, and by their prompt, liberal aid we 
were enabled to tide over a most critical time. (4) Before their 
funds were exhausted, money from Calcutta, from London, came; 
and then the ‘Mansion House’ funds, through the general fam- 
ine committee trustees, were given without stint. Last, but 
not too late to meet a special needed work, came the much ap- 
preciated response from our own native land, through Hon. J. 
Warren Merrill, and Rev. C. F. Tolman, and F. A. Smith, Esq.” 


Mr. Newhall writes from Ramapatam: “For many months 
past, applications have been made from time to time for bap- 
tism ; but [have thought it wise to put off all such until the work 
of distributing relief was over. About December Ist, however, 
T concluded to keep them waiting no longer, and allowed some 
candidates to come before the church. I speak within bounds 
when I say there are hundreds waiting for baptism. The Spirit 
seems to have fallen upon us in answer to prayer. The les- 
sons of the famine have evidently not been entirely lost upon 
the degraded sufferers. The heathen seem susceptible, to an un- 
usual degree, to the force of christian truth. I am aware that 
this is due partly to the aid which has recently come to them 


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from christian nations; but I believe that there has been and 
still is an outpouring of the Spirit, opening the hearts of these 
sufferers to the reception of the gospel,—a power independent 
of and deeper than any expectation of pecuniary gain.” 

Mr. Williams, at Ramapatam, in his annual report for the 
same year, makes the following statements, so literally fulfilled 
by recent events: “We look,” writes Mr. Williams, “for great 
ingatherings into our churches soon, such as have not been 
known in the history of modern missions. If I am not utterly 
mistaken, God, by his Spirit, is moving on the hearts of thou- 
sands and thousands of-these Teloogoo people. The students 
are out from Saturday morning until Sunday evening every 
week. They preach, give medicine and a little money to the 
very helpless. They tell me that whole villages are ready to 
become Christian. I believe that God is about to fulfil his 
promise to the Son regarding this people. It looks as though 
a nation is to be born ina day. We, if wise, will get ready to 
receive them.” The whole number of baptisms among the 
Teloogoos for this year was two hundred and ninety-eight, and 
the total membership was four thousand five hundred and 
twenty-two. During this terrible famine nearly four hundred 
Teloogoo christians died. 

Tur Year 1878.— The reader will have observed the bright 
anticipations and confident predictions expressed by the mis- 
sionaries in their communications for the last few years, relative 
to the near approach of a great religious movement among the 
Teloogoos. That movement began in 1877, during the terrible 
ravages of the famine. But the missionaries felt the necessity 
of exercising the greatest caution in giving encouragement to 
those who professed to be converted and requested baptism. 
On the 16th of June, 1878, Mr. Clough opened once more the 
doors of the church for the admission of members. On the 
24th of June, Mr. Clough writes that he had begun to bap- 
tize converts, and in that letter says: “Before this reaches 
you, there will be five hundred baptized christians, probably, 
within four miles of where I now write, residents of Ongole 


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and suburbs. If rain comes soon, and a harvest is given, as 
we hope, there will be three thousand baptisms in this mission 
(Ongole) within the next six months. The converts are now 
waiting for the ordinance. This means an addition to our Te- 
loogoo mission of not less than fifteen thousand souls. Perhaps 
twenty thousand would be nearer correct.” A few days after 
the above was written, Mr. Clough sends forward the following: 
“In my letter of the 24th, I mentioned that we had again com- 
menced baptizing believers in the Lord Jesus as their Saviour, 
and the Saviour of the whole world. Since then, the work has 
gone on, widening and deepening; and now, as I write these 
lines, it seems to me that the blessed gospel which we try to 
preach is going to sweep everything before it.” On the 7th of 
July, Mr. Clough reports that he and his native helpers had 
baptized five thousand four hundred and twenty-nine since 
June 16th. 


Larer.—On the 31st of July, Mr. Williams, who went to 
Ongole on the 12th of that month to aid Mr. Clough, writes 
as follows: “Brother Clough and his helpers were literally 
crowded upon by the pedple who were pressing into the king- 
dom of God. I saw what few missionaries have seen. More 
than a thousand people from one of the Ongole Pallums came 
into the compound, and gave up their idols. Great as this in- 
gathering is, it is not beyond my anticipations. When we 
think how many earnest men are at work on the field, who go 
day after day telling the simple story of the cross, and plead- 
ing with their fellow-men to turn unto God, and remember 
what God has promised, who could look for less?” On the 5th 
of August, Mr. Clough, after referring to the help he had re- 
ceived from Mr. Williams, says: “I cannot write in detail. 
God was with us, and glorified himself. A multitude were 
baptized, — three thousand two hundred and sixty-two in all. 
These make, with those already reported, eight thousand six 
hundred and ninety-one baptized from June 16th to July 
31st, inclusive. Zo God be all the praise now and through 
all eternity! Unless I err greatly, if my life and health 


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and my native preachers are spared, before Jan. 1, 1879, five 
thousand more will be baptized by us; and then, D.V., the 
work will go on and on, until the little flame kindled here be- 
comes a mighty fire, sweeping everything before it.” 


Stmt Larer.—On the 17th September, Mr. Clough again 
writes: “The total number baptized up to date, since June 15, 
is nine thousand one hundred and forty-seven. Is this too 
large a blessing? Is it not what you have been praying for? 
Are the converts unacceptable, because so many? Are we not 
after all the Teloogoos? We—my native preachers and my- 
self — believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and in preaching the 
gospel. We baptize those only whom we have reason to be- 
lieve he has regenerated. How can-we do otherwise? Thou- 
sands of converts now await baptism. We must advance all 
along the line, and keep the old camp-fires burning also. 


Txren anp Now.—In that same letter, Mr. Clough says: 
“Twelve years ago this morning we arrived in Ongole. 
The outlook was then dreary enough. Twelve years of 
hard work, of joys and sorrows, have passed. We look 
around us, we think of the past, and can but exclaim: 
‘What hath God wrought!’ We can now see that God 
intends to do great things for the Teloogoos. Past blessings 
are but an earnest of greater ones just before us, if we are 
faithful over the few things, already given. I rejoice with 
trembling, not because I doubt the goodness of God and his 
promises, — but are the American Baptists going to stand by 
me? or are they going to hear of the great revival among the 
Teloogoos, rejoice for a day, then forget us nearly, and leave 
the great multitude just out of heathenism upon me? When 
at home in 1872-73, I often said: The Teloogoos are going 
to come to Jesus just as fast as the Teloogoo missionaries and 
the American Baptists are ready and prepared to teach the 
converts the ‘all things whatsoever I have commanded.’” 

Is 1r Genuine? — That question many are asking concern- 
ing this religious awakening among the Teloogoos. Rey. 
John McLaurin, formerly a successful missionary in Ongole, 


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under the auspices of the Missionary Union, but now laboring 
in Coconada, where the Canadian Baptists have a promising 
mission among the Teloogoos, sends to the Canadian Baptist 
(Nov. 21, 1878) a letter, dated Sept. 24, 1878, from which the 
following is selected: “The conviction has for some years 
been taking possession of my mind that, though the accessions 
to Christianity in India amply justified the expenditure of men 
and money invested in missions, and though it was our duty 
and privilege to rejoice in what had been done, still the Lord 
would accomplish his purposes of mercy toward India in a dif- 
ferent manner before long. There was a spirit abroad in the 
land, a breaking-down of old prejudices, a conviction of the 

truth of Christianity, an expectation of the break-up of the , 
Hindu system, a saturation of the mind of certain districts with 
gospel truth, which did not seem to be utilized in the present 
order of things; and I felt that the Lord intended to use these 
latent forces for. his own glory some day. I believed it would 
be brought about by something which would stir the public 
mind to its deepest depch. Some political or social revolution, 
or may be pestilence or famine. I believe the movement has 
begun. Do I believe in the genuineness of this revival? Ido 
believe in it heartily, joyously, and hopefully, for these reasons: 
1st. I believe in the power of the gospel to effect such a work 
as this. 2nd. I believe the Teloogoos are a prepared people, 
made ready by the Spirit for such a movement. 8rd. I know 
each square mile of the field embraced, thoroughly, by personal 
contact. 4th. I know each preacher, teacher, and colporteur 
intimately. I know his spirit, motives, and modes of work. 
5th. There is not a village on the whole field in which the 
gospel has not been faithfully preached many times a year, for 
the last half dozen years or more. 6th. In this way, the whole 
field has been saturated with the knowledge of Jesus Christ 
and the way of salvation. The people have heard all this for 
years with indifference, though in one sense believing it all the 
while. The famine came, and deathstared them in the face 
They were stirred out of their indifference, were made to 


